Sunday Wrap-Up is all about sharing the books and book related items that I’ve picked up recently. I also recap what went on last week and let you in on what’s coming up. I link up my post to Sunday Post, Bought, Borrowed & Bagged, Showcase Sunday, Stacking the Shelves and IMM.
I will post Sunday Wrap-up every other week.
Last week on the blog:
Barbie World by Heidi Acosta (Review & Giveaway)
A Matter of Temperance by Ichabod Temperance (Excerpt, Guest Post & Giveaway)
This week on the blog:
Scent of Salvation by Annie Nicholas (Excerpt & Giveaway)
Dangerous Proposition by Jessica Lauryn (Guest Post, Excerpt & Giveaway)
Midnight Sacrifice by Melinda Leigh (Review)
Wishing & Waiting On (Meme)
Tragic by J.A. Huss (Review)
Treasures On Your Doorstep
By: Julia Lynam
Genre: Non-FictionGoodreads | Amazon | B&N
Looking for a grand day out? Or an inexpensive nearby destination for your next weekend jaunt? Your search is ended! In every State in the Union you’ll find often-overlooked National Park properties – over 400 of them – waiting to delight you. This beautifully illustrated little book will open your eyes to the Treasures On Your Doorstep and give you an insider’s-eye view of what they can offer you and your family.
Never Deal with DragonsBy: Lorenda ChristensenGenre: Paranormal RomanceConsoling a sobbing dragon and serving pig buffets are just part of the job for Myrna Banks. Working for a mediation firm, it’s her job to get humans compensated for damages caused by the dragons who now rule. But her “typical” day is interrupted by Trian Chobardan, an old flame who sneaked out of her bed two years ago, taking her heart and a handful of classified documents with him.Myrna would love to show Trian the door, but he’s been sent by North America’s reigning dragon lord for help negotiating a truce with a powerful rival to avert war. Myrna agrees to help, even though she’ll be stuck with Trian as a partner.
As the two work together, Myrna finds Trian to be surprisingly supportive—and still irresistibly attractive. Though her brain tells her not to forget his betrayal, her body feels differently. When they learn the enemy dragon lord is planning something no one could have imagined, Myrna has to learn who she can trust before she loses not only her heart, but her life.
LightpointsBy: Peter KassanGenre: ParanormalWhat if you suddenly discovered you had a sense-and powers-that almost no one else in the world did? When Amanda Lindner Nichols, a 24-year-old graphic artist living with her husband in Queens, New York, is revived from a near-death experience, she discovers she perceives everyone around her as points of light-but not with her eyes. She soon learns she can not only perceive the life energy of others, but she can give and take it. With the help of others like her, she brings her husband Chris to the brink of death and back to bestow on him the same remarkable faculty, and they’re the happiest they’ve been. But not for long. All over the world, people who’ve been revived from their own near-death experience at just the right moment discover themselves with these same unusual powers. They find ways to use them-some for good and some for evil. When Amanda and Chris encounter a ruthless group of gangsters with the same faculty, tragedy follows-and Amanda faces the greatest challenge of her life.
Handcuffed in HousewaresBy: Nikki DuncanGenre: RomanceSome couples just click. Others require a hard hat and a stud finder.Monday mornings have a reputation for sucking, and today is no different for Burton Anderson. One year ago, his “perfect” life full of prestige, money, success and travel crumbled in the glaring light of betrayal.
This morning? This close to making his new construction business a success, a date gone awry has left him handcuffed to a toilet in a housewares store. Naked. And the first customer of the day is coming down his aisle.
Planning and shopping for other couples’ Big Day is about as wild and crazy as buttoned-up Leigh Schyuler gets. Until she gets an eyeful of Hearth and Home’s daily special. He’s definitely a “designer” temptation while she’s “off the rack”.
But there are risks, and then there are risks. Burton isn’t sure he can once again trust his heart to a woman who holds the power to ruin him. And Leigh discovers too late that indulging in a little no-strings sex is tying her dream of Devoted Love into hopeless knots…
Thanks, My Two Cents!
Beautiful Bastard
By: Christina Lauren
Genre: EroticaAn ambitious intern.
A perfectionist executive.
And a whole lot of name calling.Whip-smart, hardworking, and on her way to an MBA, Chloe Mills has only one problem: her boss, Bennett Ryan. He’s exacting, blunt, inconsiderate—and completely irresistible. A Beautiful Bastard.
Bennett has returned to Chicago from France to take a vital role in his family’s massive media business. He never expected that the assistant who’d been helping him from abroad was the gorgeous, innocently provocative—completely infuriating—creature he now has to see every day. Despite the rumors, he’s never been one for a workplace hookup. But Chloe’s so tempting he’s willing to bend the rules—or outright smash them—if it means he can have her. All over the office.
As their appetites for one another increase to a breaking point, Bennett and Chloe must decide exactly what they’re willing to lose in order to win each other.
Beautiful BastardBy: Christina LaurenGenre: EroticaA charming British Playboy.A girl determined to finally live.And a secret liaison revealed in all too vivid color.Escaping a cheating ex, finance whiz Sara Dillon’s moved to New York City and is looking for excitement without a lot of strings attached. So meeting the irresistible, sexy Brit at a dance club should have meant nothing more than a night’s fun. But the manner–and speed–with which he melts her inhibitions turns him from a one-time hookup and into her Beautiful Stranger.
The whole city knows Max Stella loves women, not that he’s ever found one he particularly wants to keep around. Despite pulling in plenty with his Wall Street bad boy charm, it’s not until Sara–and the wild photos she lets him take of her–that he starts wondering if there’s someone for him outside of the bedroom.
Hooking up in places where anybody could catch them, the only thing scarier for Sara than getting caught in public is having Max get too close in private.
Thank you so much, D.T. for the books!
Broken Gates
By: D.T. Dyllin
Genre: New Adult/Paranormal RomanceGoodreads | Amazon | B&N| Book Depository
P.J. Stone is a Seer who saw too little, too late.
In the past, her biggest worries were boys and school—but war has a way of changing things. Now, the alien Riders are trying to overrun the world. As the last of their kind, P.J. and her friends must find a way to save humanity before
there’s nothing left to save.After choosing a mate, P.J. hoped she’d have time to enjoy her love life. But with everything changing so quickly and major secrets revealed, who knows what the future will bring?
Feeling DeathBy: D.T. DyllinGenre: EroticParanormal Romance
Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Book Depository
Samantha Bevans is having the best sex of her life—but it’s not with her husband. Fortunately for her marriage, the affair is all in her mind. Isn’t it? As an empath, she senses other people’s emotions. But her connection to the man with the the chiseled face and haunting eyes seems so real.There’s no time for fantasies with a serial killer loose in Pittsburgh. The killer is targeting dancers at a strip club where Samantha used to bartend, back when drugs were the only cure for the torment of her abilities. As a member of a special task force, Samantha uses her talents to sense the victims’ final thoughts. Just when she thought the case was complex enough, she discovers one of the victims was thinking about her fantasy man when she died.
Who can Samantha trust when she can’t trust her own mind? An empath feels the emotional environment around her…and Samantha is surrounded by death.
Oooh what a lovely haul you’ve got here c: I hope you enjoy your reads!
My haul
Lauren
What a nice assortment of books. I just had to go to Amazon and pre-order Never Deal With Dragons because it sounded so good. Please come see what I added to my stacks at Ms. Martin Teaches Media and Inside of a Dog. Happy reading!
That’s a nice haul of books. I hope you like them all.
Jenea @ Books Live Forever’s Sunday Post
Great haul! Never Deal With Dragons Looks Awesome-I have to go check that out on Goodreads. Enjoy your books and hope you have a great week!
I’ve heard so many good things about the Beautiful Bastard series, so hopefully you’ll enjoy those two!
Happy reading! (:
My STS
What a nice haul this week. It looks like you have some nice reading ahead of you.
Weekly Wrap Up
Awesome signed book from D.T. Dyllin & I am loving this dragon trend in books nowadays.